Topic: Rugby Culture

When a player goes to ground with the ball in rugby, the team has to win the ruck to keep possession. A devotional about what the contest for the ball on the ground demands from everyone.

In rugby, you can only pass backward. The team advances by everyone moving forward together. A devotional about what that constraint teaches.

Rugby doesn’t stop much. The game continues through contact, through the tackle, through the ruck. A devotional about the sustained attention the continuous game demands.

Eight players bound together as one unit, pushing against eight others. A devotional about what the scrum demands and what it produces.

Rugby has one of the strongest cultures of official respect in all of sport. A devotional about why that culture exists and what it models.